| Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan |
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics. |
David Southwood |
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| The End of Peace and Optimism: Assessing the Changing Character of War |
A 'deliberately provocative' assessment of contemporary conflict. |
Rob Johnson |
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| Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World |
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community |
Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities. |
Selma Dabbagh, Courttia Newland |
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| M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history |
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. |
M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer |
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| Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing |
Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. |
Susheila Nasta, Mark Stein, Gail Low, Henghameh Saroukhani, Florian Stadtler |
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| Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love |
Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity. |
Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee |
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| Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy |
Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. |
Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Wallis |
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| D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ |
D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective. |
D-Empress Dianne Regisford, Rev J, Erica Lombard |
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| Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover! |
Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour and the audience, he speaks about how and why he writes his poetry, and the readers for whom he writes. |
Daljit Nagra, Rachael Gilmour |
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| Bernardine Evaristo on writing Britain’s Black histories |
In conversation with Dr Zoe Norridge and Marsha Hutchinson, Bernardine Evaristo reads from and discusses her remarkable verse novel, The Emperor’s Babe (2001), which tells the story of a African girl growing up in Roman London in 211 AD. |
Bernardine Evaristo, Zoe Norridge, Marsha Hutchinson |
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| Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone |
Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. |
Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer |
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| Readers and Readings |
Prof. Elleke Boehmer and Dr Erica Lombard consider how our reading experiences are shaped by various factors, from publishers’ decisions about book covers to the text itself. |
Elleke Boehmer, Erica Lombard |
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| The Problem of Evil |
Oxford students discuss the problem posed by the existence of evil in the world to the Christian and Hindu gods. |
Alice Harberd, Frazer MacDiarmid, Luke Martin, Tilak Parekh |
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| Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help |
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. |
Shaun Treweek |
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| Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities |
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods. |
Felicity Bishop |
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| Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement |
In this double seminar, Erasmus visitors Laurentiu Staicu and Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua discuss the rise of biomedical technology and some of the legal issues of moral bioenhancement |
Laurentiu Staicu, Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua |
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| The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal |
The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle: |
Sanjeev Goyal |
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| Aiming for Moral Mediocrity |
In this talk, Eric Schwitzgebel considers whether it's acceptable to aim for peer-relative mediocrity. |
Eric Schwitzgebel |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (4) Frozen in History: The Arrival of the Kennedys at Love Field |
Professor David Lubin gives his final Terra Lecture in American Art on the Kennedys. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (3) The Ashcan Goes to War: George Bellows, Belligerence, and the Rape of Belgium |
Professor David Lubin gives his third Terra Lecture in American Art on painter George Bellows. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (2) Buried Treasure: America’s Great Book Illustrator Howard Pyle and the Silver Screen |
Professor David Lubin gives his second Terra Lecture in American Art on Howard Pyle’s illustrations of Robin Hood and pirates and their representation in movies. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (1) Riding into History, Marching into Oblivion: The Civil War, Racial Justice, and the Shaw Memorial |
Professor David Lubin gives his first Terra Lecture in American Art on the Shaw Memorial in Boston. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Trumponomics |
The Sanjaya Lall Memorial Trust held a panel discussion to welcome Sanjaya Lall Visiting Fellow Professor Kenneith Rogoff, Harvard University. Other panellists were Martin Wolf CBE of the Financial Times and Professor John Muellbauer of Oxford University. |
John Muellbauer, Martin Wolf, Kenneith Rogoff |
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| Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science |
In this episode, Brian Earp discusses the 'Reproducibility Project' and questions whether psychology is in crisis or not. |
Brian Earp |
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| Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy |
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Rainer Weiss |
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| Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light |
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow |
Miles Padgett |
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| Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary |
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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| Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats |
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven |
Connie Aerts |
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| Strachey Lecture: Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People |
Professor Kraus will show how combining machine learning techniques for human modelling, human behavioural models, formal decision-making and game theory approaches enables agents to interact well with people. |
Sarit Kraus |
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| Nuclear Fusion |
Aled Walker, Justin Ball, Valerian Chen, Jason Parisi discuss nuclear fusion as part of the In Our Spare Time series. |
Aled Walker, Justin Ball, Valerian Chen, Jason Parisi |
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| On the origin and nature of values |
One of the world's leading theorist in Cosmology, Professor Ellis delivers the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values |
George Ellis |
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| Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition |
In this talk, Professor John Paris asks "What is the historical meaning of "ordinary means" to sustain human life? And what has been the understanding for over 500 years of Catholic moral analysis of the obligation to sustain life?" |
Fr. John Paris |
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| Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine |
A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty. |
David Wootton |
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| The Sound of Symmetry - Marcus du Sautoy |
Symmetry has played a role both for composers and in the creation of musical instruments. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify? - Tim Palmer |
Tim Palmer discusses Ed Lorenz the man and his work, and compares and contrasts the meaning of the 'Butterfly Effect' as most people understand it today, and as Lorenz himself intended it to mean. |
Tim Palmer |
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| Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars |
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA |
John Grotzinger |
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| Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices |
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA |
Howard Milchberg |
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| Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows |
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK |
Tom McLeish |
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| The applied side of Bell nonlocality |
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani |
Valerio Scarani |
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| Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto |
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure |
Insa Koch, LSE - 19 Jan 2017 |
Insa Koch |
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| Exploring the Long Term Effects of 'Thatcherite' Social and Economic Policies for Crime |
Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield - 02 Feb 2017 |
Stephen Farrall |
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| Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism |
Ian Loader, University of Oxford - 10 Nov 2016 |
Ian Loader |
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| The Problems of Long-term Imprisonment |
Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge - 6 October 2016 |
Ben Crewe |
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| The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge |
Val Gibson |
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| From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope |
Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich |
Nicola Spaldin |
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| The Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems |
Dr Heather Roff discusses the role of autonomous weapons systems within the international community. She provides a theoretical framework for defining and classifying these systems, examining the diplomatic and moral concerns that they pose. |
Heather Roff |
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| Technology and the Rise of Boundless Warfare |
Professor David Galbreath gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
David Galbreath |
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| Social Pluralism Religious Cleansing and Hybrid Warfare in Syria |
Since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising of 2011, the United States and a network of European and regional Sunni allies have applied instruments of coercion against Syria that collectively take on the character of ‘hybrid warfare’. |
John Eibner |
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| The Lure of Paris: The Republic of Letters and Eighteenth-Century Speed-Dating |
Final talk of the Besterman Enlightenment Workshop 2017, Laurence Brockliss explains the popularity of Paris as a place to visit in the 18th century and explores the opportunities for and obstacles to making contacts in the European Republic of Letters. |
Laurence Brockliss |
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| Dementia, future treatments and research |
Prof. Klaus Ebmeier is the Foundation Chair of Old Age Psychiatry. In this interview he gives his point of view on dementia, normal aging and why new treatments are not yet effective. |
Klaus Ebmeier |
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| Language, Mobility and Belonging |
A new episode of of in our spare time, this time looking at the social aspects of language. |
Aled Walker, Rosemary Hall, Nancy Hawker, Leonie Schulte, Kinga Kozminska |
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| Strachey Lecture: Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers |
Professor Zoubin Ghahramani gives a talk on probabilistic modelling from it's foundations to current areas of research at the frontiers of machine learning. |
Zoubin Ghahramani |
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| Why is it so difficult to implement Evidence Based Healthcare? |
Richard Gleave, Public Health England and Professor Sue Dopson, Said Business School give a talk for the Green Templeton Lectures 2017: Delivering Health: Clinical, Management and Policy Challenges. |
Richard Gleave, Sue Dopson |
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| The Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion |
Panel discussion with Prof John Womersley (STFC), Prof John Wheater (Department of Physics), Prof Ian Shipsey (Particle Physics), Prof Dave Wark (Particle Physics), Prof Daniella Bortoletto (Physics) and Prof Subir Sarkar (Particle Theory Group) |
John Womersley, John Wheater, Ian Shipsey, Dave Wark, Daniella Bortoletto, Subir Sarkar |
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| The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture |
Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture. |
John Womersley |
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| The shock of the new: cultural amnesia, trans erasure, and what we can do about it |
Activist and author CN Lester talks about the need for queer/trans history in a world that too often forgets that variations in gender and desire have always been with us. |
CN Lester |
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| Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit |
Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). |
Kalypso Nicolaidis, Anand Menon, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Imaginary Invalids? Euro-Atlantic Populisms and the Crisis of Democracy |
Richard von Weizsåcker Lecture with Paul Nolte (Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow St Antony’s College), the chair is Paul Betts (St Antony's College). |
Paul Nolte |
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| A new politics of globalization? Taking stock of what 2016 brought Europe and America |
ESC Lunchtime Seminar. A talk given by Robert Howse (NYU Law School), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College)on 13th January 2017. |
Robert Howse |
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| Statistics: Why the Truth Matters - Tim Harford |
Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less", argues that politicians, businesses and even charities have been poisoning the value of statistics and data. |
Tim Harford |
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| The Microbiome and the Brain |
An interview with Professor Phil Burnet, who discusses his research into the influence of the gut microbiome on brain health. He talks about novel findings, potential future work, and takes questions from trainee psychiatrists and researchers. |
Phil Burnet |
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| Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis |
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Criminology |
Oxford graduate students discuss Criminology, and the societal affects of real-life crime documentaries. |
Aled Walker, Kate Evans, Liz Kullmann, Jess Jo |
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| Évariste Galois |
Oxford graduate students discuss the life and work of 19th century French mathematical prodigy Évariste Galois |
Aled Walker, Chris Nicholls, Benjamin Green. |
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| Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart |
Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. |
Ian Stewart |
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| Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon |
The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes. |
Elisabeth Kendall |
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| What we are missing about the Missing; searching for the disappeared victims of armed conflict |
One of the aspects of the changing character of war is an increased awareness of and attention to those who go missing due to armed conflict. |
Derek Congram |
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| Strategy Evolves from apes to Artificial Intelligence |
Kenneth Payne explores the evolutionary basis of strategic behaviour, and assesses the impact of non-biological intelligence on the future of warfare. From chimpanzees to computers, via a dose of Clausewitz: hopefully something for everyone. |
Kenneth Payne |
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| Clytemenstra |
Host Alice Harberd discusses Clytemnestra, a fascinating character from Greek Tragedy, with Emily Clifford and Lily Aaronovitch. |
Alice Harberd, Emily Clifford, Lily Aaronovitch |
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| Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays |
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder |
Jamie Holder |
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| Blogging and Social Media in Criminology |
Sarah Turnbull and Ines Hasselberg, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Sarah Turnbull, Ines Hasselberg |
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| Doing Research with or without Impact: Policing Studies as a Global Field of Interest |
Ian Loader and Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Ian Loader, Ben Bradford |
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| Prisons and the problem of trust: contrasting approaches to risk, radicalisation and personal growth in two high security prisons |
Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Centre for Criminology on 5th June 2015. |
Alison Liebling |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2016: Ecrire et ne pas écrire |
Ecrire et ne pas écrire. (This lecture is in French.) |
Marie Darrieussecq, Catriona Seth |
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| Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress |
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. |
Ritchie Robertson |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years |
Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner |
Jon Rosner |
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| Our Simple but Strange Universe |
The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel |
David Spergel |
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| Trials and Tribulations in Africa |
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Merlin Willcox |
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| How can we understand our complex economy? - J. Doyne Farmer |
We are getting better at predicting things about our environment - the impact of climate change for example. But what about predicting our collective effect on ourselves? |
J Doyne Farmer |
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| Science and Politics |
Oxford DPhil students discuss the relationship between scientific advice and government policy |
Aled Walker, Kathryn Boast, Rob Shalloo |
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| Strachey Lecture: The Once and Future Turing |
Professor Andrew Hodges author of 'Alan Turing: The Enigma' talks about Turing's work and ideas from the definition of computability, the universal machine to the prospect of Artificial Intelligence. |
Andrew Hodges |
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| Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves |
Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez |
Gabriela Gonzalez |
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| Visualizing Quantum Matter |
Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis |
Séamus Davis |
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| Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change |
Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
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| Better evidence for better health care |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The explosion mechanism of massive stars |
Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo |
Thierry Foglizzo |
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| The American election of 1896 |
Host Aled Walker is joined by DPhil students Nonie Kubie and Daniel Rowe to discuss the American presidential election of 1896, a fascinating and pivotal moment in American history. |
Aled Walker, Nonie Kubie, Dan Rowe |
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| As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects |
From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Jesus College, Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge and Warwick, before his final return to Oxford. |
Nigel Hitching, Martin Bridson |
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| Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose |
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, scientists are immune to trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? |
Roger Penrose |
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| PDEs (5.6) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier, Laurent, and Chebyshev. Then, Chebyshev series and interpolants |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier spectral discretization and Fourier spectral discretization via FFT. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses finite differencing in general grids and multiple space dimensions. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy and reaction-diffusion equations and other stiff PDEs. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses numerical instability and implicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses PDEs in science and engineering, and explicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
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